Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents

Granite 4.0 3B Vision is an advanced vision-language model designed for enterprise document understanding, excelling in tasks such as table extraction, chart understanding, and semantic key-value pair extraction. It builds on Granite 4.0 Micro with a modular design, allowing seamless integration into mixed pipelines and supporting both multimodal and text-only workloads. The model incorporates innovations like the DeepStack architecture for enhanced visual feature injection and the ChartNet dataset for improved chart interpretation, achieving high performance on benchmarks such as Chart2Summary and PubTables-v2. Granite 4.0 3B Vision can function as a standalone tool or be integrated with Docling for comprehensive document processing, making it highly adaptable for applications like form processing, financial report analysis, and research document intelligence. It's available on HuggingFace under the Apache 2.0 license, offering detailed technical documentation and community engagement options.